How I applied the brute force approach to learn programming.

Back in 2016 when I was in my final year of graduation, I had really little knowledge of programming and coding though I was studying BSc. Computer Science but still the teachers were not so skillful and I was just wasting time doing nothing and at that time I didn’t even have a computer so you can think how bad I would have been in programming at that time.

Basically, I sucked at programming whenever we used to go for practicals in college I used to copy the code and paste it into IDE (at that time I didn’t even know what an IDE was.) to run it without even knowing how the code works.

Well, I didn’t even know what was the meaning of return in a function. Now you can imagine how badly I sucked. Now as I was in my final year of graduation we had to create a project for our last semester exams.

So what did I do? Asked my father for the money and bought a computer for 10k got an internet connection of 1MBPS and started learning Android all by myself with the help of the internet.

I sucked so badly that I was just copy-pasting the code from here and there without even knowing how it works. I worked day and night on my skills I used to code for more than 14 hours a day, I was so much into it. I used to sleep because my body needed it, I didn’t want to sleep as I was so passionate about it, and with 8 months of sheer dedication, I created a music player for Android from scratch.

1. I was the first student to create a live project in the college which was live on play store Here.
2. Because of this project, I got my first job in a startup and the designation was Software Engineer despite not having an Engineering degree.
3. After 10 months I sold this project to one client and made little money out of it.
4. After 15 months I made this project open source Here.
5. Finally, after that, there was no stopping.
6. It’s been four years into programming and I am in love with it.

So now right now even if you suck at programming and don’t understand it just hang in there, just code as much as you can copy-paste, get into it, try to understand the logic behind the code, and believe me after a year or six months you will be patting your back.

So If you don’t understand anything just apply the brute force approach keep copy-pasting keep reading keep trying to understand eventually you will get good at it.

Happy Coding!!